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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

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In programming, a recursive algorithm is an algorithm that repeatedly calls itself in order to arrive at a solution. A common way of explaining this phenomenon is through the use of factorials. In order to solve for 5!, you solve for 5 * 4!. In order to solve for 4!, you solve for 4 * 3!, and so on down the line.
I had a hard time wrapping my head around recursion in my high school computer science courses. Still do. It reminded me of the ouroboros. What happens when the snake gets all the way back around to its own head? But recursion—the process of going back and going back and going back—is fundamentally vital to many algorithms.
In American culture, we hate to think about turning back. Arguably the entire history of the nation is concerned with pressing on, heedless of the trampled masses. Gatsby's great tragedy was to be "borne back ceaselessly into the past." Orpheus was a coward and an idiot.

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Does anyone else like bagels?

3/30/23 11:20AM
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